DC Universe Online: The IGN Journal

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We've created a character, and you're calling the shots.

By Greg Miller

It's easy to get depressed this time of year. No, I'm not referring to the holidays, obnoxious families or so on; it's depressing because if DC Universe Online hadn't been delayed, you could be playing it right now. Soaring through the skies with Superman, poisoning people with the Joker, and trying desperately to keep eye contact with Wonder Woman: it could be happening in your house right now. However, the game was delayed to 2011 and you're left to just page through your comics to kill time.

But wait, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Although not everyone got one of the precious DC Universe Online beta codes when we gave them away, I did and I'm willing to share it with you. Today, we're kicking off the DC Universe Online journal. Here, you and I are going to build a character together and then jump into the beta. You'll vote on the critical decisions, and then I'll play and report back with screens, videos and impressions of what's happening with our character and what I'm seeing in the beta.

Sound good? Well, let's get started.

Well, a lot has happened in the life of the Ignorer since I last updated. For starters, he got a bunch of power and skill points to apply to his... well, powers and skills. This led to some new combos, but most importantly, a cool boxing glove gadget. I can shoot out this glove and devastate opponents. This is added to an arsenal that includes a throwable explosive and a sentry turret that spews fire.

Currently, the Ignorer is Level 8 and riding high after beating the Scarecrow with the help of Batwoman. This is the first boss our character came across, and the fight is actually one of the coolest I've found in the game. You're dosed with fear gas, and that means you get to fight all sorts of stuff you normally wouldn't. At one point, Scarecrow has hallucinations attack you that look like Batman and the rest of the Bat family, Killer Croc, and an enormous representation of the evil doctor himself. Once I beat the Scarecrow, I got to watch a comic cutscene detailing the madness that is Dr. Crane.

Still, the big deal in this update is you. Last time, I asked you to submit origin stories for the Ignorer in the comments, and a bunch of you did just that. Below are those stories. Read them, pick a favorite, and vote so we have a cool story to back our goofy character.

Bengo2105 The IGNorer was a homeless man before he offered his body to medical science for a small sum of money. The experiments went horribly wrong and he lost his sight, speech and hearing. The scientists tried reversing the effects of the experiments but could do nothing for him. When Lex gave everybody powers, one scientist became super-smart and created a special helmet for the IGNorer and it gave him ultra sonic senses allowing him to predict movement of enemies. He also gained the flight ability and with his bat like senses naturally gravitated to Batman's side. He will forever Ignore but will do all he can to protect the world that cared so little for him.

Skeevin Ignatius Noir had it all -- fast cars, hot women, and a best-selling book entitled "Being the Better Man." He was a self-help guru that had climbed to the storied heights of pop-psychology and was finally reaping the fame. However, the first stop on the biggest book-signing tour of his life would also prove to be the last.

You see, Ignatius had a rival in the self-help world. A smug cocksure egomaniac named Dr. Leher. Oh, and he was a Nazi too. A Nazi self-help guru. Dr. Leher also had a self-help book out at the time, entitled "The Sixth Axis of Control." Ignatius absolutely abhorred this book. While taking Q and A's during one of his panels, a person in the crowd asked Ignatius what he thought of Leher and his "Sixth Axis of Control." Ignatius said "Pah, I give it a 4.9! It's POOR!" This enraged the fan, who threw a glass bottle that shattered right over Ignatius' money-maker (his head), putting him into a deep coma. "LEHER RULES, A**HOLE!" said the fanatic, who quickly ran away into the anonymity of the night.

That would have been the end of Ignatius entirely, were it not for the fact that the bottle that had struck him was filled with the magical elixir of Gingold, which gives anyone who drinks it the powers of flexibility. As fate would have it, the liquid seeped into Ignatius through his massive head wound, and affected his body in entirely new and different ways. When he awoke from his coma, he found he now had the powers of emotional elasticity. To put it in laymen's terms, Ignatius' feelings were now made of rubber. Whatever cruel or hurtful things were said to him bounced right off of Ignatius, and stuck to the person who originally said them, making them realize just how pathetic and petty they were. Ignatius could also choose to simply ignore the negative comments that were hurled at him, and psychically convert the negative vibes into muscle power. The more you put down Ignatius, the stronger he would become!

Vowing to use these new powers to fight criminals and internet trolls everywhere, Ignatius Noir became The Ignorer. Training his enhanced mind and body in the martial arts, Ignatius shaped himself into a true hero under the tutelage of Batman. The Ignorer: he doesn't just fight crime, he refuses to give it the dignity of a response!

BigTitan101 The Ignorer was once a mercenary, trained for war since his first step. He did the most brutal of things and caused grief and fear among those around him. He became angrier and angrier because he was being commanded to do things he no longer wanted to do. After many failed attempts to escape, he became lucky and got super human abilities from the exobytes. He escaped his home and went somewhere nobody would find him (Gotham City). He eventually became Batman's student. After all the pain he had caused, he seeks redemption and from then on he works hard to protect everyone and everything from every threat and everything evil around him.

iSaidnofzac The Ignorer was the bastard child of Bobby Kotick and a drifter. He took his name due to not-so-fond memories of his childhood begging his father to just relax on the Bro-Shooters, make them bi-annual... but watching his dad run franchise after franchise into the ground. The Ignorer is driven by pure boredom. His goal is simple... assume the role of a generic superhero and spawn his own line of spinoff games with overpriced collectors editions. Games that Bobby Kotick will eventually purchase the rights to, and release annual updates and worse... DLC that costs $5 more than other DLC of a similar type!

Fenrir616 A smartass by nature, he hated hippies and all those guys who protest and stuff like that. He worked at an office just ignoring the problems of the world. All alone, because he was so busy ignoring everything that he could not care about caring for a partner. All the problems of the world just passed by him, he would continue with his daily life like a robot, ignoring everything, only stopping to satisfy his needs to sleep, eat, and play CoD. But when he was bathed in the exobytes that gave him super powers, he decided that this was the time when he would stop ignoring everything, that he would use his powers to help Batman fight crime, he would ignore no more but as a memory of his past self he shall be known as....THE IGNORER !!! (Dramatic Music with a close-up on his face and thunder in the background.)

MCREF The Ignorer was once an average man until his ignorance had given him strength. Some say he learned martial arts to open a bottle of prescription pills because he never bothered to check the inscription on the cap. Others say he learned how to fly because he mentally attuned himself to ignore gravity. They all agree on one thing though. He ignores pain..... mostly yours.

Sfontana86 The Ignorer -- for years Jayson DiFalco was thought to be "dumb." Doctors diagnosed him with ADD and his teachers game up on him. Little did they know that Jayson's blatant ignoring of them was because his mind was hard at work.

Every day, without knowing why, Jayson's mind was creating a special suit. A suit that would grant who donned it the agility of Nightwing. A suit that would grant him the combat prowess of The Dark Knight. A suit that would grant the ability to fly like Superman. A suit that would grant who donned it the ability to destroy the world.

The day that Lex Luthor sent out exobytes to awaken a plethora or superhumans, something changed in Jayson. This suit that his mind had created started to manifest itself onto him. Once the suit was completed, the mind that created it shattered only leaving Jayson and the suit behind.

The boy who spent years ignoring those around him is now a man in charge of saving them. Meet... the Ignorer

Rabidweasel91 Mild mannered Jeff Fuller was just an average guy trying to make ends meet as a video game reviewer for the Gotham Times. Always a bit eccentric, Jeff had actually HAD a suit stashed away in case he was ever given super powers by a radioactive bug or some sort of chemical accident. When he actually given those powers by Lex Luthor, Jeff knew what he had to do... he had to emulate the hero that was always on the front page... BATMAN! (Ignorer theme plays.)

Gold_ultima He used to be on the engineering side of IGN before losing his wife Flora and daughter Dora to some superpowered thugs. After gaining some powers of his own, extensive training and inventions of gadgetry made from various video game collector's edition items, he went out to seek justice, after messing up and being saved by Batman, he was taken in and trained properly.